TY - JOUR
T1 - A History of universalism
T2 - Conceptions of the internationally of science from the enlightenment to the cold war
AU - Somsen, Geert J.
PY - 2008/9/1
Y1 - 2008/9/1
N2 - That science is fundamentally universal has been proclaimed innumerable times. But the precise geographical meaning of this universality has changed historically. This article examines conceptions of scientific internationalism from the Enlightenment to the Cold War, and their varying relations to cosmopolitanism, nationalism, socialism, and 'the West'. These views are confronted with recent tendencies to cast science as a uniquely European product.
AB - That science is fundamentally universal has been proclaimed innumerable times. But the precise geographical meaning of this universality has changed historically. This article examines conceptions of scientific internationalism from the Enlightenment to the Cold War, and their varying relations to cosmopolitanism, nationalism, socialism, and 'the West'. These views are confronted with recent tendencies to cast science as a uniquely European product.
KW - Historiography of science
KW - Internationalism
KW - Nationalism
KW - Universalism
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U2 - 10.1007/s11024-008-9105-z
DO - 10.1007/s11024-008-9105-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:53549109708
SN - 0026-4695
VL - 46
SP - 361
EP - 379
JO - Minerva
JF - Minerva
IS - 3
ER -